Mind and Machine: The Future of Thinking

The World Science Festival started in 2008. It "gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries." The following video is a panel discusses the brings together experts to talk about brain, the mind, consciousness—and how human beings are beginning to inter interface with technology.

WATCH FOR Thursday, February 22, 2018

(From June 2010 Festival)

The Spark of Genius: World Science Festival

Watch for Thursday, February 15, 2018

(From June 2015 Festival)
(around 39 minutes in, ethical considerations come to the fore) (showing brain activity around 50 min)
We also use Adderall/Modafinil/Ritalin to enhance performance—drugs are for ADHD/sleeping disorders. "Tiger Parents" push their children—good thing? bad thing?

Future Technology

CBS 60 Minutes on AI (2016)

Watch for Wednesday Sept 6, 2017

This is not the best link, but to watch the program at CBS, you have to have an account. The discussion of artificial intelligence was the first segment of CBS 60 Minutes on October 9, 2016. It talks about the computer system Watson that won Jeopardy in 2011. Now Watson has been to medical school and is being used with cancer patients. Segment runs about 30 minutes.